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I kind of feel like they shouldn't announce they are working on anything beforehand if people think it's just made up or whatever and only want proof. Do you think the things they posted here are a lie?
Look, I don't know what everyone here's experience with large tech companies is, and I'm not going to say every tech company is the same, but at least from my experience I am no stranger to the finance to dev pipeline. I have had outstanding requests for pretty important things, or at least important to me or my department for things to be fixed or adjusted for *years*, routinely. It seems to me like people just think these things happen and don't take considerable time to be done or done correctly. **Especially when your company is not profitable**, which reddit has stated it is not. I have little doubt there is a lot of accessibility work in their queue they would love to address, but their finance department would have to approve those being worked on, and there may be other priorities that need to be addressed first to even be able to continue to sustain or grow enough to get to accessibility. Businesses are almost always going to prioritize projects targeting revenue first but especially so when they aren't profitable.
That is also a weighty claim that they are in violation of the ADA, I have not heard that before, is there a credible legal authority that has claimed there is a case there?
Comment by ClockOfTheLongNow at 24/06/2023 at 20:41 UTC
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I have little doubt there is a lot of accessibility work in their queue they would love to address, but their finance department would have to approve those being worked on, and there may be other priorities that need to be addressed first to even be able to continue to sustain or grow enough to get to accessibility.
Punting on accessibility is a fast-track to liability. All available evidence suggests it's an afterthought at best.
That is also a weighty claim that they are in violation of the ADA, I have not heard that before, is there a credible legal authority that has claimed there is a case there?
Not yet. I assume reddit is large enough to be subject to the ADA, [and this means they're expected to comply] (https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/blog/mobile-apps-ada-compliance/[1]). The federal government [is similarly interested in this] (https://www.ada.gov/resources/web-guidance/[2]):
1: https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/blog/mobile-apps-ada-compliance/
2: https://www.ada.gov/resources/web-guidance/
When Congress enacted the ADA in 1990, it intended for the ADA to keep pace with the rapidly changing technology of our times. Since 1996, the Department of Justice has consistently taken the position that the ADA applies to web content. As the sample cases below show, the Department is committed to using its enforcement authority to ensure website accessibility for people with disabilities and to ensure that the goods, services, programs, and activities that businesses and state and local governments make available to the public are accessible.